Maternal Downward Neighborhood Income Mobility and Newborn Discharge to Child Protective Services

Jennifer A Jairam; Eyal Cohen; Christina Diong; Howard Berger; Jun Guan; Emily Ana Butler; Joel G Ray

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.40604

Maternal Downward Neighborhood Income Mobility and Newborn Discharge to Child Protective Services

JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Oct 1;7(10):e2440604. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.40604.

Authors

Jennifer A Jairam^{1

2}, Eyal Cohen^{2

3

4

5}, Christina Diong², Howard Berger^{6

7}, Jun Guan², Emily Ana Butler³, Joel G Ray^{2

3

6

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine Research, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² ICES, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
³ Child Health Evaluative Sciences, SickKids Research Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁵ Edwin S. H. Leong Centre for Healthy Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ Department of Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁷ Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Keenan Research Centre, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 39441599
DOI: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.40604

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Plain language summary

This cohort study examines whether there is an association between a mother moving into a neighborhood with lower income between births and newborn custody by child protective services at birth.